• Newly hired professionals in all government contracting roles at all levels and all sizes of organizations

• Business and organizations who are exploring or have acquired a government contract either as a prime contractor or a subcontractor

• Specialists who have been working in limited areas of procurement, those who have not had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the total picture.

• Experienced professionals needing an effective refresher, to be brought up to date on new rules, new procedures, new rights, and new remedies

What you will learn:

Basics of Government Contracting is a comprehensive three day review of the entire federal procurement process, from start to finish, emphasizing the practical, the keys to success in today's contract world. Special emphasis will be placed on the impact of the Acquisition Streamlining Statutes and the implementing regulations on procurement activities.

This is a fundamental course in government contracting covering, in critical point fashion, the key elements you need to function effectively in today's federal procurement world. Further, the program covers a comprehensive amount of ground in an easily digestible manner in clear, concise terms you can swiftly apply to your individual work and operations.

Over the course of three days, you will receive a grounding in:

• History

• Statutes and Regulations

• Terminology

• Procedures and Players

• Bid Protests

• Changes

• Types of Contracts

• Federal Acquisition Regulation

• Defense Acquisition Regulation Supplement

• Major Cases

• Claims and Adjustments

And much more....

It is a truism in education that basic courses should be taught by the best teachers, by professionals who have the ability to explain clearly and to maintain the students' interest. Our course faculty, you will find, meets these standards. Further, they have the additional advantage of speaking from experience, since each is a specialist involved daily in procurement matters. Our instructors continually earn high marks for their ability to teach and knowledge they convey for both our courses and within their own careers.

Gene Pickarz has spent over three decades as a contracting professional with assignments in both Government and Industry. He has served in contracting and acquisition positions in both the US and Europe with extensive experience in acquisition planning, government procurement, intellectual property, international contracting, fiscal law, and source selection. He currently serves as a senior contracting officer and Team Chief with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in Chantilly, VA.

He has also served as an adjunct professor of contacting and logistics management for Sinclair Community College and Park College in Dayton Ohio and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in the US and Europe. In addition, he has 7+ year’s experience developing and presenting acquisition and contracting courses for the Intelligence Community while assigned to the NRO.

Mr. PIckarz has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland, an MBA from Georgia University and College, and a Master of Science in Contracting from the Air Force Institute of Technology. He is a Certified Professional Contracts Manager with the National Contract Management Association as well as a recognized author and speaker.

Gunjan Talati

Gunjan Talati is a Partner at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. Gunjan, an experienced government contracts practitioner, regularly represents contractors in a variety of sectors including aerospace and defense, health care and IT. His practice is a mix of counseling, litigation and transactional work.

Gunjan’s litigation work includes representing contractors in suspension and debarment proceedings. As part of his practice, he has helped contractors of all sizes through contentious suspension and debarment proceedings before multiple agencies including the U.S. Air Force, General Services Administration, U.S. Army and U.S. Agency for International Development. He was recognized in 2014 by the National Law Journal’s Legal Times as a 40 under 40 D.C. Rising Star for his suspension and debarment successes. His litigation practice also focuses on bid protests before the Government Accountability Office and Court of Federal Claims.

Harlan Gottlieb has spent 26 years practicing Government contract law with extensive experience in government procurement, source selections, foreign military sales, intellectual property and fiscal law. He has appeared numerous times before the Government Accountability Office on contractor protests and before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals on contractual disputes.

Mr. Gottlieb currently serves as the Senior Attorney Advisor for the Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) in Huntsville, AL. He was formerly the Chief Counsel for the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) where he supervised an office of 6 attorneys, a paralegal and administrative assistant. He is responsible for providing legal advice to AMCOM Aviation program offices and Contracting Officers on billion dollar helicopter programs, from requirements inception to “retirement”, as well as issues in ethics and fiscal law. From 1987 to March 1995, he served as an Attorney Advisor with the U.S. Army Aviation and Troop Command, now the Aviation and Missile Command. He provided contract and programmatic legal advice to the Program Mangers for the CH-47 and Apache programs.

Jame Miyazawa

James Miyazawa is Associate Counsel with the Special Projects Division of the Department of the Navy Office of the General Counsel. He advises contracting professionals and program personnel on the full range of acquisition matters, focusing on pre-award activities. He represents the Navy in bid protests before the Government Accountability Office and contract appeals before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals. James has been with the Special Projects Division since 1996, serving in a field activity in the Washington, D.C. area before relocating to San Diego in 2006. Before joining the Special Projects Division, James was Assistant Counsel with the Washington, D.C. Detachment of the Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Norfolk, a contracting activity within the Naval Supply Systems Command. James also served as the board law clerk to the Department of Housing and Urban Development Board of Contract Appeals.

James is a native of Kaneohe, Hawaii, and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Policy Studies from Syracuse University, and his Juris Doctor from The American University in Washington, D.C.; he lives in San Diego with his wife, HelenKay Dimon.

Jonathan Kosarin

Jonathan H. Kosarin is Associate Counsel at the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office in Washington, DC.

Previously he was Assistant General Counsel at the National Reconnaissance Office and has over 30 years experience in Acquisition and Government Contracting. Mr. Kosarin also served as Deputy Counsel, US Navy Special Projects Division; Associate Counsel, Naval Supply Systems Command; Associate General Counsel and Director of Procurement Law, Federal Home Loan Bank Board; European Trial Attorney and Attorney Advisor at the U.S. Army Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany, and; Trial Attorney, U.S. Army Contract Appeals Division. He also served as an Adjunct Professor of Contract Law at the Army Judge Advocate General's School in Charlottesville, VA and as Deputy General Counsel, Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office.

He is an Adjunct Instructor of Procurement and Contracting at the University of Virginia and also teaches at the National Criminal Justice Command College.

Education

Mr. Kosarin received a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Syracuse University; a Juris Doctor degree, from Brooklyn Law School; and a Master of Laws degree in Government Procurement Law, from the George Washington National Law Center.

Kenneth J Allen

Ken worked in the federal government for 37 years (31 as a lawyer). He served in the Army either active or reserve from 1970 until retirement in 2002, and in the civil service from 1984 to 2007. His last twenty years in government were spent in government contracting and grants, and his last ten years included duties as a Special Assistance United Attorney with an emphasis on contract fraud. In 2007 Ken retired from government and became the General Counsel of a defense contractor. In 2009 he retired (again) and now teaches and writes on government contracting subjects.

Since 1995 Ken has been a frequent educator for government and private training organizations, including the Army Management Staff College, Army War College, and Naval Postgraduate School (for whom he teaches best practices in defense contracting at the NPS campus in Monterey CA and at several overseas locations). He has authored over 50 training programs on topics that include government contracting, subcontracting, contract interpretation, federal appropriations and fiscal law, the fiscal law of government contracting, the Antideficiency Act, federal grants, trial advocacy, and legal ethics.

Ken is the author of Thomson Reuters’ Contract Interpretation Handbook, A Guide to Avoiding and Resolving Government Contract Disputes, How to Read a Government Contract, and Federal Grant Practice. He has recently authored several articles on government contracting in the National Contract Management Associations’ Contract Management magazine (June 2016, December 2015, November 2015) and in Thomson Reuters’ Briefing Papers (May 2016 and March 2015). He has addressed national conventions of the National Contract Management Association (Worldwide Conference 2016), the American Society of Military Comptrollers, and Thomson Reuters’ Government Contracts Year in Review (2016, 2015, 2014).

Mr. Killham served as corporate counsel for several major U.S. government contractors following his retirement as a U.S. Army Judge Advocate. These assignments included that of Director, Legal Operations, for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company in Palmdale, California; General Counsel for Thales-Raytheon Systems Company LLC and MD Helicopters, Inc. in Fullerton, California and Mesa, Arizona, respectively; Senior Business Counsel for Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems in El Segundo, California; and Division Counsel for two operating divisions of Litton Industries, Inc. In these positions, he was responsible for identifying, advising on, and resolving a wide variety of legal issues, including those relating to government and commercial contracting, subcontracting, export-import compliance, corporate governance, intellectual property rights, labor/employment law, and litigation management.

While in the military, Mr. Killham served as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Division (Procurement Fraud Branch), U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; as the Senior Command Counsel in Kuwait during a period of build-up for renewed hostilities with Iraq; as the Senior Professor of Contract and Fiscal Law on the faculty of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, Virginia; as a Trial Attorney for the U.S. Army Contract Appeals Division, Arlington, Virginia; and as the Chief, Military Justice and a Criminal Prosecutor for the 1st Armored Division in Germany.

Education

Mr. Killham received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, a Juris Doctor degree from Notre Dame Law School, and a Master of Laws degree (with emphasis on U.S. Government Procurement) from The Judge Advocate General's School. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Infantry Officer's Basic Course, Ranger School, Airborne School, and Command and General Staff College, and has served as an Executive Officer, S-3 Air Officer, and Platoon Leader in the 1st Battalion, 505th Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.

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All Federal Publications Seminars courses meet the course requirements of the National Contract Management Association’s certification programs. We are a proud Education Partner of the NCMA.

CPE: CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Federal Publications Seminars is part of West Professional Development, which is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have the final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org.

CPE HOURS

This Program is eligible for: 19.5 (CPE) hours of credit

Program Level: Basic

Program Prerequisite: None

Advance Preparation: None

Method: Group-Live

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DEFENSE ACQUISITION UNIVERSITY

Defense Acquisition Workforce members must acquire 80 Continuous Learning Points (CLP) every two years from the date of entry into the acquisition workforce for as long as the member remains in an acquisition position per DoD Instruction 5000.66. We will provide you with documentation of points awarded for completing the event.

** Please note that because some states are changing their policy on CLE reporting, you will need to fill out the request for credit from Federal Publications Seminars within 10 business days, or we may not be able to issue credits for the program.

For guests that prefer to phone in their reservations: you may call the Reservation Center at 1-866-227-5944 to secure a reservation on your group block. However, be aware that a processing fee of $15.00 + tax per reservation will be incurred if you choose not to use the above link. Reference group code SCFPS8 when you call to make the reservation.

Reservations must be made by Friday, August 17, 2018. After that time, the group rate will be offered based on hotel availability only.

For guests that prefer to phone in their reservations: you may call the Reservation Center at 1-866-227-5944 to secure a reservation on your group block. However, be aware that a processing fee of $15.00 + tax per reservation will be incurred if you choose not to use the above link. Reference group code SCFPS8 when you call to make the reservation.

Reservations must be made by Friday, August 17, 2018. After that time, the group rate will be offered based on hotel availability only.

Food & Beverage
Coffee, tea and water will be served throughout the day with an afternoon cookie break. Breakfast and lunch are on your own.

Room Block InformationThere is a courtesy room block for this hotel. Call 617-567-5000 and ask for the ‘Federal Publications’ room block for a rate of $275/night plus taxes. Reservations must be made by May 21,2018.

There is a room block for this location. This hotel is located across the street from the ECTC. For guest room reservations, call 703.537.7800 and reference “Federal Publications." Note that these reservations must be made three weeks prior to the start of the event and that the rooms are subject to availability.

There is a room block for this location. This hotel is located across the street from the ECTC. For guest room reservations, call 703.537.7800 and reference “Federal Publications." Note that these reservations must be made three weeks prior to the start of the event and that the rooms are subject to availability.

Room Block Information
There is a room block for this location. The rate is $250/night plus taxes, plus a discounted resort fee of $8 (not reflected until checkout). Click here to make reservations. This rate is subject to availability.

Reservations MUST be made by June 22, 2018.

Food and BeverageContinental breakfast, lunch and beverages will be served.

RESERVATIONS AT GOVERNMENT PER DIEM

Government Per Diem rates are now sold out.

TRAVEL INFORMATION

Room Block Information
There is a room block for this location. The rate is $250/night plus taxes, plus a discounted resort fee of $8 (not reflected until checkout). Click here to make reservations. This rate is subject to availability.

Reservations MUST be made by June 22, 2018.

Guest Rooms at the Government Per Diem:

Government Per Diem rates are now sold out.

Food and BeverageContinental breakfast, lunch and beverages will be served.

There is a room block for this location. For guest room reservations, call 206-622-7900 and reference “Federal Publications Seminars” for a rate of $209/night, plus taxes.This rate is available up until 30 days prior to the conference, and is subject to availability.

TRAVEL INFORMATION

There is a room block for this location. For guest room reservations, call 206-622-7900 and reference “Federal Publications Seminars” for a rate of $209/night, plus taxes.This rate is available up until 30 days prior to the conference, and is subject to availability.

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Basic or fundamental subject matter is covered. Courses are geared to general knowledge or can be taken as a refresher.

200

Specific topics or issues within a topic area are covered. Students should be familiar with terms of art and general concepts concerning the course topic.

300

Workshops and class discussions cover specific subject matter in-depth, and participation is strongly encouraged. Attendees should have at least 2-3 years' experience in the area of study.

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